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Updating current location to denial.
Because - push comes to shove - I'll believe every time that in real life, like in our movies, by the end, everything is okay. Happys endings! And if everything isn't okay, it's not the end. Picture abhi baaki hai, mere dost. Picture abhi baaki hai…
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Two Central European Productions Diverged In a Wood
and I—
I watched the one less horny,
And that has made all the difference.
😞
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Metropolis Chapter 2
I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy exploring New York City in the latest chapter of my historical AU for 1899. Some images and details from Chapter 2 are collected here.
Marriage Certificate of Harry Larsen and Caren Olsen
Here is an example of a marriage certificate from New York City in 1899: the marriage certificate of Harry Larsen and Caren (Karin) Olsen, Norwegian immigrants and residents of Brooklyn.
They signed the certificate -- entering into legal marriage -- at New York City Hall in Manhattan on October 19, 1899.
When looking for an example of a marriage cert, I searched for grooms named Larsen who married in 1899 in New York, but I almost fell out of my seat when I realized this particular Larsen married on October 19.
New York City Hall
Top -- a photo of New York City Hall in 1900. At the time, the building was the seat of almost all City government agencies, including the marriage bureau where couples registered their marriages. But the city had grown massively in size due to the consolidation of the five boroughs in 1898.
In response, the city constructed the 40-story Municipal Building to house some of the increased space demands after consolidation. It opened in 1914. It's visible at right in the bottom photo. For decades, the marriage bureau was housed in the Municipal Building, but now it's at a very lovely building at 141 Worth Street.
City Hall retained (and still retains) some of its government functions. For example, it houses the office of the Mayor of New York City and the chambers of the New York City Council. It looks very much the same today as it did in 1899 -- as visible from the photo at bottom here, taken in 2016.
Worth Trained Wool Walking Dress, c. 1902
It seems to me that Maura Franklin would have preferred clothes with simpler silhouettes like this dress. I particularly appreciate the gorgeous sleeves and the lace at the collar and wrists.
The monobosom, or the "pigeon breast" look, was fashionable at the time. Maura's blouse on the show is in that style. (It would be more apparent if she wore a corset, which would have provided the "puffed up" structure necessary for the pigeon breast look.)
This dress is narrower at the top, but I love the detail at the chest, which gives the impression of a cape knotted above the breastbone. The color of the dress and the cape-like detail are both tributes to Maura's clothes in the show.
The bell-shaped skirt, which fits closely at the hips and then flares at the hem, would have been popular in 1899 (Maura's trousers in the show are of this style).
There's a row of tiny buttons at the back of this dress, which Maura would have needed a buttonhook -- or another person (eyes emoji) -- to do and undo. Think of it as a very vintage green, green dress.
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Cracking up at Maciej referring to Izabeli Czartoryskiej as a girlboss. So true bestie!
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- Maybe you were right. Maybe this is some kind of dream.
- Well, who’s dreaming it then? You or me?
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Andreas Pietschmann in PDie Patin - Kein Weg zurück
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At work: "when I get home I WILL create something!"
*Gets home*
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Woke up, inhaled a pączek, found the will to survive until spring. Everyone say "thank you Polish people."
The Catholics kinda went off with Fat Tuesday. I don't care about Lent but at this point in the year the only thing keeping me going is the promise of pączki.
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The chili plant made a deal with their God to only be consumed by things that could spread its seeds and fly. The chili received capsaicin, making itself painful to eat for mammals, but not birds, and all was well for the chili.
Then the human shows up, tastes it, and likes the pain. So now there's this flightless fucking mammal eating the chili. Like not even a fruit bat or anything, a flightless fucking mammal chomping on the chili.
What the fucking shit, God, cried the chili, I specifically requested the opposite of this.
Now hold on, wait a moment, replied the God who talks to plants but has no idea what the fuck these apes are going to do next. It might be something cool.
And in a flash of a second, in barely fraction of the time that chili took to develop capsaicin, the humans went from walking across land bridges and rowing little boats across small waters, into building ships that could cross oceans. More humans tasted the chili, and liked the pain. They took the seeds with them, and planted it elsewhere.
See? They spread the seeds.
They're still not flying, said the chili, still feeling insulted and betrayed.
But before the conversation was over, the humans were still not done fucking around and nowhere close to finding out. The ships became machines, and another machine was invented, capable of flight. Now, not only were the humans farming chili on continents far too far away for any of the birds that originally ate it could dream of flying, but the chili flew with them to lands where it could possibly not grow, so that humans over there could also eat it and enjoy the pain.
You see? They spread your seeds and fly.
It doesn't count as keeping a promise if you only manage it by a fucking accident, said the chili, still somewhat insulted. But nonetheless, the chili thrived.
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Saw these photos of Maciej Musiał with long hair and chains on and fell to my knees at Target
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Here are the mauraeyk scenes in a different version from September 2020 (meaning they have long since been edited into what we know now):
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Le Long des Golfes Clairs
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Category: F/M
Characters: Daniel Solace; Maura Franklin; Eyk Larsen
Additional Tags: no beta, no proofreading, just vibes; love hurts
Words: 4862
Summary: In the final week before the launch of the simulation, Daniel comes to understand something new about his wife.
His own loss had left him blown hollow. Sometimes it had felt as though her grief had climbed inside him, filled up all that empty space until he pulsed with the pain.
He would have taken it on willingly, a hundred times over, if it would have lessened the burden for her. Please. Take her pain and make it mine, he begged the universe. Let it be not her suffering, but I. The prayer had gone unanswered.
But time had started to do what he could not do.
#Le Long des Golfes Clairs#Daniel Solace#Maura Franklin#Eyk Larsen#daniel solace fans never say i don't do anything for you#1899 netflix#1899#tooting my own horn again#toot toot
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Hans deserves better than Wolfgang, but he also deserves everything he wants 😭
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It's actually ridiculous how much time I spend thinking about Hans.
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What I like best about Clémence is that she should be a snotty asshole, but she always chooses to be kind -- even if that's not what she was raised or trained to do. She seems to want a genuine, loving relationship with Lucien, even though he shoves her away time and time again. Until his death, she forgives him and tries to help him.
She's taken aback by Jérôme's appearance, race, and status -- and admits that she judged him immediately -- but realizes that she was wrong to do that. Later on, she hides him and joins him in his mission to help Eyk, even at great personal risk.
She could be judgmental about Tove's pregnancy -- Tove is obviously very young and unmarried -- but she treats Tove with respect and admiration, wasting no time in comforting her when she's distraught.
Clémence shows concern for Virginia, too, even though they're not close. When Virginia seems ill, she checks multiple times if everything is all right.
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